Category: Homilies

Last week Jesus knowingly sent his disciples into a storm and left them in it for hours. This week, we see something that, quite frankly, is offensive to us. Jesus not only ignores this poor woman, but even calls her and her whole race “little dogs.” And yet, just as the storm ended with walking on water, so this rebuttal ends with a joyful consent to the woman’s request. Some try to say this woman teaches Jesus about racism but that is silly; Jesus already knows racism is wrong. Jesus Christ, who is both God and Man, is using this...Read More

Homily for Transfiguration, Year A Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Looking-at-the-Lamp.wav"][/audio]   Darkness. Do you know darkness in your life? In the world? Surely the answer is yes. Loneliness, boredom, lack of direction, restlessness, confusion, heartbreak – darkness. But, Scripture tells us repeatedly that Christ is the light of the world and that we are to be children of the light. Still, who here does not sense the darkness in their life, shadows hiding in their own heart? Each of us needs light, more light. And Peter, the first Pope, tells you how to do that....Read More

Homily for 14th Sun OT, Year A Fr. Albert  St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/The-Liberating-Burden.wav"][/audio]   Is it heavy enough for you? Are you weary from carrying it? The weight of your own importance, the burden of your pride. Do your shoulders hurt from the load of vanity, of keeping up appearances? Is your back sore from leveraging control over politics, or relationships, or even traffic? It’s work enough controlling ourselves, yet we so often insist on seizing responsibility for anything but the one thing that is actually ours. "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and...Read More

Homily for Pentecost Sunday Fr. Albert St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/The-Unity-of-the-Holy-Spirit.wav"][/audio]   Unity. Do we have unity in our families? Our Parish? Our Country? What about in our faith? Is our Church unified? Perhaps it is worth asking, what “unity” means anyway? In a sense, we could say that these questions run throughout all human history. Trade, politics, warfare… these and more are responses to the question of unity, to the question of how we will go about existing in the same world. Sometimes we can avoid the issue by simply avoiding the same space. Two points...Read More

Homily for the 6th Sunday of Easter Fr. Albert  St. Peter Catholic Church, New Iberia [audio wav="http://box5246.temp.domains/~alberuc3/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Love-Rules.wav"][/audio]   “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” Come again? Did Jesus really say that “Love” means keeping “commandments?” Isn’t love supposed to be free and generous? What does following a bunch of rules – being “rigid” – have to do with the beauty and freedom of love? Surely this one comment by Jesus is a fluke, right? No, he reiterates it just a few sentences later: “Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me.” And again a few...Read More